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The latest mobile phone from Sony Ericsson that made it into the wild is the Sony Ericsson Kurara, a device still unannounced, but which surfaced in a series of leaked photos and which has been also reviewed. The device is expected to arrive on the market sometime in the first quarter of the next year, while running... |
23 November 2009
10:32 GMT |
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Mobile phone users that own a Symbian-based device can now enjoy a new feature on their handsets, namely Spotify Mobile. The mobile version of the popular app is now available on a wide range of phones from Nokia, Samsung, or Sony Ericsson, offering users the possibility to access a large library of music directly f... |
23 November 2009
08:27 GMT |
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The Sony Ericsson Kurara is the latest handset the Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has been rumored to deliver to the market in the near future. We've already had the chance to enjoy a series of leaked images with the handset, as well as some specifications on it, and now some more details on w... |
21 November 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been reported a few days ago to plan making some changes when it comes to the operating systems that it will use on its future high-end devices. According to some people from the company's Maemo marketing team, Symbian will be removed from future N-Series phones by 2012, and... |
20 November 2009
09:24 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced on Wednesday, at the Web 2.0 EXPO in New York, the launch of a beta version of its Sony Ericsson WebSDK, for its handset based on Google Android OS and Symbian. According to the company, the new solution is meant to offer both web and mobile developers the ... |
19 November 2009
07:31 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has been rumored not too long ago to be working on the development of yet another nice looking device, which is supposedly heading to the market under the name of Sony Ericsson Kurara. While we've already had the chance to take a look at the device, now a series... |
18 November 2009
05:09 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Smasung has been rumored recently to plan removing Symbian from its future smartphone roadmap. However, some news site went even further, stating that the company is also intending to stop the support for the OS, due to the launch of its own mobile phone platform, called bada. While th... |
13 November 2009
04:38 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has recently been rumored to plan removing Symbian from its future roadmap, and DonJoo Lee, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s Mobile Communications Division and Digital Media & Communications Business, has just confirmed that. It seems that the company will o... |
11 November 2009
03:54 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung, the second largest handset vendor around the world, is reportedly getting ready to deliver to the market an increased number of devices powered by Google's Android operating system. In addition, the company is also said to plan leaving aside the development of Symbian-bas... |
10 November 2009
09:02 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is reportedly getting ready to launch more new devices on the market. The company has just announced the upcoming availability of its first device powered by Google's Android operating system, namely the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, and now we learn that it might so... |
5 November 2009
09:09 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced not too long ago a new X Series range of mobile phones, in which it has already included two devices, the Nokia X6 and Nokia X3, and now we learn that the former might arrive on the UK market as soon as November 12 is here. At least this is what Expansys shows on its website... |
5 November 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Search engine giant Google announced on Monday that it released a new version of its Google Mobile App for Symbian mobile phones. The new flavor of the application offers owners of a Nokia device the possibility to place a shortcut to Google search directly on their handset's home screen, so that they can perfor... |
3 November 2009
08:20 GMT |
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Norwegian company Opera Software announced today the launch of the beta flavor of its Opera Mobile 10 browser solution for Symbian-powered mobile phones. According to the maker, the fresh version of the browser comes around with a sleek design, also introduced with the newly released Opera Mini 5 beta.The new look of... |
3 November 2009
06:07 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia has announced today that its Nokia N97 mini will become available for purchase as soon as this week. The new mobile phone is a smaller version of the high-end Nokia N97, just as its name suggests. However, the phone comes with about the same functionality as its bigger br... |
28 October 2009
09:28 GMT |
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The Symbian Foundation announced on Tuesday that it had reached a new milestone in its move towards making the Symbian operating system open source with releasing the platform microkernel (EKA2) and with support for the development kit under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). According to the Foundation, the release o... |
22 October 2009
04:52 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced recently that it has released the first official Qt port for Maemo and that the Qt 4.6 is really near, and now it has already launched the beta version of Qt 4.6.0 for Symbian. The new release is mainly focused on stabilizing the Symbian port and will reportedly work on ... |
14 October 2009
10:27 GMT |
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Mobile phones based on the open-source Symbian platform are expected to see a great increase in shipments over the following five years, a new report from Juniper Research shows. According to the Open Source OS report from the research firm, Symbian handset shipments are to double by 2014, reaching 180 million, up fr... |
1 October 2009
09:06 GMT |
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Symbian, ranked as the most popular smartphone operating system, plans to maintain its lead in the rapid increasingly market by making its software more accessible for both users and developers, and most of you might already know a few things about Symbian's release plan. Due to the entrance of new companies lik... |
22 September 2009
02:07 GMT |
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A new mobile phone coming from Espoo, Finland, has been spotted into the wild recently, namely the Nokia 8800 Erdos, a luxury device that includes more than just expensive materials and high-quality crafting. The new device is reportedly headed to the market with a different approach when it comes to the way the phon... |
14 September 2009
05:43 GMT |
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If you still have your old Nokia 6600 or Sony Ericsson P900 phone, there is good news for you, as mobile developer HeroCraft has made its Symbian S60 2nd edition and UIQ 2 titles available for free. Ranging from arcade to puzzle and strategy genres, the entire list includes 11 games: 8 in 1: Arcade Park, Ball Rush Aq... |
11 September 2009
07:25 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is reportedly preparing to move deeper into the Android and Symbian land, while leaving aside the Windows Mobile operating system for its future smartphones. According to the news, the move might be driven by the fact that sales in the Windows Mobile area have been sl... |
10 September 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Two of the world's largest companies, Microsoft and Nokia, announced only a few days ago that they would collaborate on the delivering certain software solutions on the Finnish mobile phone maker's handsets, in a move that would probably affect other companies in the future. One of the terms of the deal bet... |
14 August 2009
11:02 GMT |
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Gartner released recently a market research study showing that the mobile phone market went down by about 6 percent during the second quarter of the ongoing year, and that the smartphone area of the market went up by 27 percent during the time frame, compared to the same period a year ago. Among the other findings t... |
14 August 2009
04:29 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is reportedly getting ready to come to the market with another handset based on the Symbian S60 5th edition operating system, a device that should be called Jalou. The company has already announced the release of a Symbian based handset this year, the Satio, which sho... |
7 August 2009
10:01 GMT |
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The Symbian Foundation is already known to plan on moving its Symbian operating system into the open-source area, and it seems that the first steps in this direction have already been made, as the first open-source software package has just become public. The new package, which comes under the Eclipse Public Licence ... |
10 July 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been recently rumored to be on its way to come to the market with a new device that would run under Google's Android operating system, yet it seems that the company does not plan to make such a move. The only mobile operating system that is and will be on the company's c... |
6 July 2009
09:42 GMT |
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One of the most reliable protection utilities for S60 smartphones, Safe Deposit Box, has been developed by WebGate JSC. While there are lots of solutions that offer similar features, Safe Deposit Box is one of the most user friendly and efficient 3rd party applications. It simply keeps the files you have previously d... |
29 June 2009
10:48 GMT |
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A new Samsung mobile phone has been recently spotted into the wild, this time wandering through FCC's courtyard, the Samsung B5100. The new handset, which will come to the market running under the Symbian S60 operating system, hasn't been announced just yet, but a series of details regarding its specificati... |
9 June 2009
06:47 GMT |
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Zeus Quest, as many of you might already know, is one of the best adventure games of last year, and now it has made its way into the world of the Symbian S60 5th Edition phones as well. CrazySoft has recently released the new, funny adventure game for those enthusiasts who would like to enjoy both impressive graphics... |
6 June 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Mobile phone users who own a Symbian S60 5th Edition-powered handset have now two reasons to rejoice, as both a Facebook application especially developed for them and Flash Lite 3.1 are available, coming directly from Adobe. The new Facebook client can be found at the Ovi Store and comes as a Web Runtime widget, whil... |
2 June 2009
03:29 GMT |
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The Symbian operating system, mainly designed for running on handhelds and mobile phones, has recently been ported to an Intel Atom-based motherboard, consequently confirming the compatibility of the platform with the increasingly successful Atom processor. This new feature of the Symbian OS will provide system vendo... |
22 April 2009
04:04 GMT |
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Google has recently issued an update for the popular Google Maps for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 devices, bringing some major fixes to Google Latitude – the service that is able to keep track of users' location while allowing them to share it with social networking friends –, the most important of... |
14 April 2009
02:10 GMT |
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Webgate is offering users of Symbian devices a solution to block incoming SMS messages considered spam. SMS Spam Manager stops these messages using six different filters, which greatly improves its efficiency. Furthermore, users have the option to reject all incoming messages or to accept messages only from people li... |
9 April 2009
12:01 GMT |
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One of the fewest efficient security solutions found on the Symbian software market, Handy Safe Pro, developed by Epocware, is a great assistant that helps owners of Symbian smartphones keep their important data safe. Regardless of which kind of information you are willing to store on your smartphone's memory, e... |
31 March 2009
12:01 GMT |
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The guys from fring have recently announced the release of a new Twitter 2.0 Add-on for their namesake application, given the fact that Twitter has become increasingly popular lately, and that their users seem to have requested such an update to be made. The new Twitter 2.0 for fring is announced to be available for ... |
31 March 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson's Idou has made it into the wild once again these days, with a wide range of images with the device available on the Web. Among the photos with the handset, the ones that might catch your attention a little are those that show the device dressed in silver. Most of the info on Sony Ericsson's... |
26 March 2009
09:48 GMT |
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The first Samsung Omnia to be released on the market, the i900 came around featuring Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, while the Samsung i8910 Omnia HD is expected to show up running the Symbian S60 5th Edition platform. Even so, in addition to the Symbian Omnia HD, the recent rumors around the Inte... |
20 March 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Researchers from various security firms have discovered a new mobile threat that targets Symbian phones. The worm features a signed Symbian certificate and propagates by sending malicious links via SMS to all numbers in a phone’s memory.F-Secure's Antivirus Research and Response team notes that this new th... |
21 February 2009
05:54 GMT |
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JAJAH, a leading IP telecommunications company, announced new solutions for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Symbian. The new services are meant to offer VoIP calls via WiFi or over the cellular network and come as white label solutions so that carriers and non-carriers would be able to release the service under their ... |
20 February 2009
06:34 GMT |
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LG Electronics showcased at the Mobile World Congress its fourth S60 on Symbian device, dubbed KT770. The new handset features S60 5th Edition on Symbian OS 9.4 and comes with a slider form factor and a numeric keypad. According to the company, the new handset includes a 5-megapixel camera, along with a 2.8-inch touc... |
17 February 2009
02:48 GMT |
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ZingMagic, the developers of classic board and puzzle games for all mobile phone operating systems, have launched a new range of their titles, which now include support for S60 5th edition devices such as Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. All the new games come with redesigned user interfaces, as well as improved AI. The list... |
13 February 2009
10:51 GMT |
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There's been much talk about Symbian handsets that sometimes lag because their RAM memory is full and users forgot to close some applications. Unfortunately, RAM memory isn't infinite, so you'll be stuck with what the manufacturer has included in the device. On the other hand, as a temporary storage ar... |
12 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Spb Software, a leading developer of Windows Mobile applications, has announced that its Spb Brain Evolution game, a number one bestselling title for Windows Mobile touch-screen devices all around the world, is available now for Symbian S60 smartphone users as well. The Spb Brain Evolution comes as an intellectual ... |
4 February 2009
06:30 GMT |
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It seems that the mobile phone market in China is dominated by two of the biggest players in the industry, namely Nokia and Motorola. Together, the two makers account for 90 percent of the smartphone segment in the Chinese market, which is seen as one of the most lucrative markets in the world. According to a recen... |
26 January 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Researchers from anti-virus vendor Kaspersky warn about a new threat targeting mobile users in the form of credit stealing trojans. The malicious applications initiate unauthorized requests to transfer credit from one phone to another. Credit transferring allows one mobile subscriber to transfer funds to another numb... |
21 January 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Samsung has announced today that it managed to sell over 10 million touchscreen handsets around the world last year. Considering the fact that Strategy Analytics announced that a total of 37 million touch phones had been sold during the past twelve months, Samsung accounts for a great percentage of the units shipped.... |
7 January 2009
08:38 GMT |
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Well known by now, Motorola has been experiencing difficulties in introducing its mobiles and getting users to appreciate them at once. As further proof to enormous pressure the company has been taking for some time, a rumor surfaced, claiming that the giant manufacturer decided to drop all Symbian developments and g... |
23 December 2008
10:33 GMT |
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Mozilla has been pretty faithful to Windows Mobile and Linux for some time, a fact arising even from that, two months ago, when the alpha version of Fennec was released, there was no word on the development of such a browser for other mobile platforms. Now, however, after taking a look at Symbian's second and th... |
15 December 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Since he developed ports for the Quake III Arena, in order for it to run on Symbian operating systems, Olli Hinkka figured he should make it available for the S60 version as well, but only if the phone meets certain conditions. Also, this time, he added some new playing options to the game, to make it more appealing ... |
28 November 2008
08:59 GMT |
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Samsung doesn't rest and here it is, presenting to us a new device to be included in our holiday shopping list. The i7110, codename “Pilot,” is said to hit Russia first, and then most European countries this December. With all that, this device has already created some agitation among fans.Desig... |
17 November 2008
10:34 GMT |
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